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Monday, August 27, 2007

What Is Painting?
Posted by Sarah

Succulent Eggplants (synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 74 3/4 x 96 1/2) by Beatriz Milhazes
Gift of Agnes Gund and Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund. © 2007 Beatriz Milhazes

If artist Julian Bell's answers in What Is Painting?: Representation and Modern Art (Thames and Hudson, 1999) don't satisfy your itch for painterly contemplation, perhaps the offerings at MoMA's current exhibitition What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection (July 7–September 17, 2007) will do the trick. Here's the word on the show:

It presents a selection of artworks made since approximately 1965, including a number of recent acquisitions and many works displayed for the first time since the Museum's reopening. A variety of responses to the question "What is painting?" are proposed in loose chronological sequence, ranging from ironic to sincere; from figurative to abstract; and from an embrace and creative reimagining of painting's possibilities to a critical engagement with its limits.

Read a gamey interview with John Baldessari (whose painting inspired the title of the MoMA installation) here.

Overheard

8/27/2007 4:27:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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